About Us
Since 2013, we've been creating native apps directly from your existing site, keeping all your design, custom features, apps, and integrations intact.
2,000+ apps published since 2013
MobiLoud is a mobile app builder for ecommerce and retail brands. We build custom native iOS and Android apps on your existing website, using our platform, our team and your own web stack. The app belongs to you. Pietro Saccomani founded the company in 2013, and we've been bootstrapped ever since. Our remote team works across the UK, Canada, Latin America and Europe.
We built MobiLoud because you shouldn't need a second storefront to have an app. Other app builders rebuild your store in their own platform, with a separate CMS, a template and only the integrations in their catalog. Custom native development means a separate codebase where every page, flow and third-party tool has to be rebuilt. The third-party tools only come across if their vendor offers a mobile SDK or an API, and many don't. Either way, your team keeps two systems up to date. We chose to build on your existing website so your team can keep using its own web stack.
A MobiLoud app is built on your live website, but it can look and work as differently from the site as you want. It's unique to you. The native layer adds push notifications, persistent login, deep linking, a home-screen icon and App Store and Google Play distribution. Every change your team makes on the site is live in the app at the same time it's live on the web.
Your team can build app-only pages, layouts and promotions in its existing CMS. Simple CSS classes separate app content from web content, so you can decide what customers see in each.
MobiLoud apps launch in 6 to 8 weeks. A custom native build takes 6 to 12 months and needs an in-house mobile team or agency to keep it going afterwards.
| App builders | Custom native development | MobiLoud | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where the app is built | Inside the builder's platform, with its own CMS and template | A separate native codebase | On your existing live website |
| Which integrations carry across | Only integrations in the builder's catalog | Only the ones whose vendor offers a mobile SDK or an API | Your existing web stack, including its third-party tools |
| Who keeps it working after launch | Your team, inside the builder's platform | Your in-house mobile team or agency | We maintain the native app as your team updates the website |
| Platforms | Most work with Shopify only | Your web platform, with features rebuilt in native code | Shopify, BigCommerce, Adobe Commerce, Magento, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, WooCommerce, custom and headless stacks |
MobiLoud fits ecommerce and retail brands with repeat buyers, including fashion, beauty, skincare, health, pharmacy, sportswear, pet and specialty food and drink. We also build for B2B distributors with gated catalogs, account-specific pricing and repeat ordering.
MobiLoud has published more than 2,000 apps since 2013 and has hundreds of active customers today. Our customers include Jack & Jones and Vero Moda, John Varvatos, Tadashi Shoji, Pharmazone, Haleon and GSF Car Parts.
Across MobiLoud's customer base, well-promoted apps reach 20 to 30% of online revenue at maturity, with the strongest going further. Pharmazone gets 63% of its online revenue through its app. Tadashi Shoji's app brings in 18%.
MobiLoud isn't a good fit if your customers buy once, as with furniture, major appliances and other big-ticket one-offs. If your core feature needs native-only technology, like augmented reality or sensor integration, our approach won't suit it either. And if you're pre-launch or don't have an established website and real traffic yet, build the website first. We'll say so if it's not a fit.
With MobiLoud, the app is yours, along with the Apple and Google developer accounts registered in your name. Your customer accounts, orders, analytics and push subscribers stay on your own stack and providers.
We build and test the native app, submit it to the App Store and Google Play, and handle OS updates and native fixes as your site changes. After launch, we guide your team on push strategy, analytics and app promotion, while you send the push and promote the app. We meet regularly through launch and in reviews afterwards.
The people you'll work with most as we build and look after your app.
Pietro Saccomani
CEO and Founder
Pietro leads MobiLoud, which he founded in 2013 to give brands with an existing website a simpler way to launch a mobile app. He sets the direction of both our company and our product. Pietro also handles our partnerships.
Vitor Argos Marcellino
Head of Product and Operations
Vitor decides what we build next and leads the engineering team that builds our product. He also manages our day-to-day operations and the team that supports your app.
Diego Valdivia
Customer Success Lead
Your work with Diego starts with onboarding, when he gets your app built and launched on the App Store and Google Play. After launch, he advises your team on the launch plan, push notification strategy and promoting your app. On Enterprise, your dedicated success manager meets with you regularly to review results and plan improvements.
Igor Butnaru
Technical Project Manager
While your app is being built, Igor is your day-to-day contact. He keeps you updated on the build, tests your app and submits it to the App Store and Google Play.
Andrew Buck
Head of Content
Andrew looks after our content and SEO, including the blog, newsletter and case studies. His guides and comparisons help you decide whether to build a mobile app and explain how to build one.
Hasan Nagizade
Lead Mobile Developer
Every MobiLoud app uses the same infrastructure Hasan builds and maintains. He is responsible for native iOS and Android development and keeps your app stable and fast. Each new OS release and guideline change from Apple or Google goes through him first.
Jason Martinez
QA Lead
Before your app goes to the App Store and Google Play, Jason tests it on real iOS and Android devices. He tests every release after launch too. Jason finds problems before you or your shoppers do.
Shalom Taiwo
Technical Support
When something breaks in your app, Shalom works out what's causing the problem. She works with our product and engineering teams to get your app working properly again.
From launch through ongoing growth, our team partners with you to make your app a real revenue channel.
"We couldn't find another company that could offer the same features at the same price point, same time to market, and make it as easy as MobiLoud could."
Svend Hansen
Product Owner
"We wanted to give our loyal customers a convenient way to keep coming back and reach them directly with push notifications. Our app now drives 10% of our total revenue with minimal effort from our team."
Damien Smith
CEO of Bottle Stop
"No one believed we'd have an app in under a month, but within two weeks, it was done."
Ahmed Yousef
Director of Ecommerce
"My team is thrilled. It's a brilliant solution that requires almost no effort from our side."
David Cost
VP of Ecommerce & Marketing
"MobiLoud has been an exceptional partner. They really care, and they've helped us launch an app we're proud of."
Adam Taylor
Founder & CEO
"The app's been invaluable to us. The cost we're paying versus what we're getting back is tenfold."
Nick Barbarise
Director of IT
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